Gary Doberman

Full Moon Notebook

Gary Doberman

"Even though I can't explain why, a film that moves me deeply each time I see it ... enchanting!" – Stan Brakhage

The Moieties

Gary Doberman

"... where beads of light searching out 'the beloved' do pulse with the beat of the filmmaker's heart in perfect contrapuntal rhythm with all else in the frame of that sequence." – Stan Brakhage, World Film Festival of Canada

The Moth-Eyed Man

Gary Doberman

"This is a portrait of Brakhage in Brakhage's style. I can't see any justification for making this film." - Ken Jacobs

Aporia Series: Aporia III

Gary Doberman

"The roll bar! The roll bar, yes! ... very enthusiastic about this film!" – Kurt Kren

Nimbus

Gary Doberman

"Nimbus was Robert Creeley's first choice to show in conjunction with a lecture at Rocky Mountain Film Center in 1978. This film owes much to Creeley's poetry and Edward Hopper's paintings, although no conscious consideration structured the working process - Hopper in the sense that Brian O'Doherty writes of the paintings as displaying 'an observed, an observer and a witness.'" –G.D.

Trilog: Fisheries, The Rhyme, The Old

Gary Doberman

"Yesterday I took another look at the three film prints I own by Gary Doberman, FISHERIES, THE RHYME and THE MOIETIES and satisfied myself that, yes, the last several years his work has been THE most persistent influence on my films ...." - Stan Brakhage, Brakhage Scrapbook

Trivia

Gary Doberman

"Trivia was Brakhage's choice out of all my films up to that point to be shown at the School of the Chicago Art Institute on a program with a Werner Herzog film. There was a definite poetic justice to this unplanned coincidental combination of Trivia with a Herzog film. Trivia could be described as the Old World in the New World, Bruegel's Icarus having a 'bad day' in the New World, a New World Aesthetic response to Herzog's Old World sentimental Romanticism of the New World." –G.D.

Sandwoman's Moon

Gary Doberman

"Playing peek-a-boo with the moon."– Jane Brakhage, August 1977

Aporia Series: Aporia VII

Gary Doberman

Marks of Reference

Gary Doberman

"As I said, but wish to imprint, MARKS OF REFERENCE is one of your very greatest films to me, Gary - a breakthru for my comprehension of yr working over these 'inner rectangles' for years in your films ...." - Stan Brakhage

Aporia Series: Aporia V

Gary Doberman

"A narrative so to speak, a threatening environment, a space which opens up in a 'wall,' revealing, a threat that speaks across mediumistic boundaries." – Ed Schwartz

Aporia Series: Aporia IV

Gary Doberman

"... the line between public and private imagery." – Fred Worden

Domicile

Gary Doberman

"In this film there is a simple accessible constant which you will have no difficulty in recognizing. There is an equally apparent variable. So your question - to phrase it poorly - might be, what is it that is being measured here? The materials of this film are personal, comfortably so. Nothing in that way distorted or untoward. But the choices of the artist are both crucial and defining, and there is evident attention to what he has called boundaries. This ... is a beautiful film, factually, with a lovely shifting counterpoint in the pacing. Like an old slow blues, after some up-tempo number – so, read it and think." – Robert Creeley

Aporia Series: Aporia VI

Gary Doberman

Aporia Series: Aporia II

Gary Doberman

"This is the one that is perfectly balanced ... this is the one which is the masterpiece." - Stan Brakhage

The Fur of this Animal

Gary Doberman

"Wanted to drop you a quick note to congratulate you on THE FUR OF THIS ANIMAL. Saw it recently ... and was very impressed and interested - made me want to see it a few more times. ... But your film, even though I see it operating through composition (pictorial plus time-based) did get me on the edge of my seat - the image quality throughout was really rather extraordinary. In addition, the film just seemed somehow more serious, which is I guess a matter of a kind of depth and subtlety. So anyhow, you kind of won me over to where my prejudices just melted away." - Fred Worden